CHICAGO — “I get all of my Met information from The New York Post,” Joe Maddon said Monday at Wrigley Field, so you know the Cubs manager has a superb grasp of his opponent this week.

Maddon and his former Angels boss Terry Collins will oversee a major-league Futures Game of sorts on Tuesday night, when right-hander Noah Syndergaard makes his big-league debut for Collins’ Mets. Between the two clubs, which have scouted each other extensively the past couple of years because they rose with opposite strengths and liabilities, we should see a wealth of acclaimed prospects.

“I’m as excited to see them as I am anybody else,” Collins said of the Cubs, before the Mets dropped the series opener, 4-3. “It’s going to be a challenge, and that’s why everybody is talking about the Cubs for the next few years to be a dominant force because they not only went out and got some pitching, but they’ve got these young, talented position players coming that are going to make them strong for a while.”

“It’s a challenge always facing guys like that,” Cubs rookie third baseman Kris Bryant said of Syndergaard. “But we’ll have fun with it. I’m sure he’ll have fun, his first start.

Bryant, who hit his first Wrigley Field homer Monday in the first inning off losing pitcher Jacob deGrom, entered spring training as Baseball America’s No. 1 prospect and debuted April 17. Addison Russell, the Cubs’ second baseman, came in at No. 3. Syndergaard was at No. 11, Mets second baseman Dilson Herrera stood at 46 and Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki grabbed the No. 63 spot.

It represents a wealth of talent for two big-market teams that, in the prior few years, tore down their payrolls and built through drafting, developing and trading veterans for minor leaguers. The Cubs, as Collins noted, constructed a nucleus composed of position players, while the Mets went deep with their pitching. That’s why the two teams have dialogued as the Cubs looked for starting pitching — they wound up signing Monday night’s winning pitcher Jon Lester and right-hander Jason Hammel as free agents last winter — and the Mets searched for a shortstop.

“You’re always curious, because you feel like you might be playing them in the playoffs. That part is interesting,” Maddon said. “For me, my focus is so much on us, what we’re doing.”

Fair enough. We’ll do the comparing. It is interesting, however, that Syndergaard will likely face a Cubs lineup with at least two guys who have faced him before. Had he made his debut against one of the National League East teams, then all nine of the opposing hitters might be flying blind. But because the Mets’ Triple-A affiliate plays in Las Vegas as part of the Pacific Coast League, and because the Cubs’ Triple-A Iowa affiliate also participates in the PCL, some overlap exists.

Last August 12, Las Vegas played at Iowa, and Syndergaard lasted 6 ¹/₃ innings, allowing three runs and five hits, walking two and striking out eight. Bryant went 1-for-3 with an infield single. Cubs right fielder Jorge Soler struck out looking as a pinch hitter. And Cubs reserve outfielder Matt Szczur went 1-for-3 with a single.

“I just remember he throws hard,” Szczur said. “His fastball is hard, and he has a big curveball.”

“I don’t remember the game,” Bryant said. “I just remember playing with him [last year] in the Futures Game. He’s a really good pitcher. Big-bodied. Perfect pitcher’s body. He throws real hard. They’ve got a good one, for sure.”

Asked if his players’ experience against Syndergaard could help, Maddon said, “Just minimally. I always believe a pitcher with good stuff probably has an advantage in an early setting until a guy gets his feet on the ground.”

Maddon then noted the success of the Mets’ other young starting pitchers — deGrom, Wednesday’s Matt Harvey and Thursday’s Jon Niese.

“Kudos to them for really turning their fate around,” Maddon said of the Mets. That both of these clubs are figuring things out, on the same field this week, marks a feel-good story for the entire game.